For some reason, a search for our company name (“hometalk”) does not produce the search box in the results (even though we do have sitelinks).
We are adding schema markup as outlined here, but we're not sure about:
Will adding the code make the search bar appear (or at least increase the chances), or is it only going to change the functionality of the search box (to on-site search) for results that are already showing a search bar?
It is only going to change the functionality of the search box (to on-site search) for results that are already showing a search bar.
As stated here: https://developers.google.com/webmasters/richsnippets/sitelinkssearch
Search box not displaying? The sitelinks search box appears only for navigational queries and when relevant for users. Google
algorithms use a variety of factors to determine when the box appears,
including the information on the site and different types of
navigational queries from Search users.
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Something weird happens when trying to use a custom entity multi-select as a custom field. When searching for "Apple W" these results show:
Yet when trying to search for "Apple Wat" this happens completely breaking this search functionality:
Does anyone know why this happens? It also seems to happen in other fields. I've also tried setting the search settings to "AND", but I presume that to only be working for the Storefront search.
Edit:
A similar problem seems to appear when using the Storefront search with "OR" as your search behaviour or when having "Split search terms" enabled on 'product name' in the search configuration.
Currently in M365 Lists, you can only do a partial word search using a wildcard. This also applies to SharePoint searches, but does not apply to most other M365 programs. I contacted Microsoft because, in earlier versions, it was a setting to enable or disable needing the wildcard. Microsoft says it cannot be done - need to use wildcard. I do know that when you start typing in the Search, it will bring up all records with whatever you type directly under the Search. If you pick one, it brings you up to another screen - again users not used to and not feasible. If you enter on the Search with a partial word, it brings up a blank list.
Issue - this is for a phone database that over 1500 people use. Current database does not require wildcard. So you can type kal and get all names starting with kal. To try to tell 1500 people how to do it (include wildcard), is just not feasible. I have asked Microsoft if we could add a field to top of list that we could code to search (without wildcard). Have not heard back yet, but it seems like it is first level support that is answering any support questions I have even when I ask to give it to someone higher up.
So, does anyone know how you can do a partial word search in Lists without the wildcard - either by changing the config of Search or creating a new field that will allow users to search? Welcome to all ideas. Thanks!
I have noticed that when performing a phrase search with double quotes, azure Search return appropriate search results but it highlights each individual word in the phrase.
For example when we do phrase search on “data scientist” it highlights “Data” and "Scientist" as well ideally it should have highlighted just “data scientist”.
Is this the default behavior of Azure Search and is there any way to alter it.
Is this the default behavior of Azure Search and is there any way to alter it.
Unfortunately there is no way to customize this behavior at the moment.
In Azure Search we use Lucene's Postings Highlighter. This highlighter ignores positions of terms that matched, that's why you see all phrase terms highlighted independently.
You could refer to the similar SO thread.
If you want to promote this feature to achieve you could go to feedback page and vote for it.
I want to send queries to Wolfram Alpha real fast. I've been using wiki query from search bar for ages, how can I search on WA?
Ultimately I found the solution myself, but it took me some time and I had to devise the solution myself, since all Google searches returned the extension which I wanted to avoid. Here it is.
Right click the address bar and click Edit search engines...
(or open Settings -> Search -> Manage search engines...)
Usually, you can find all recognized search engines you used already listed there, but if not, add this: (*use any keyword of your choice)
The query url: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%s
Now it is possible to use wa query from search bar to search on Wolfram Alpha. Note, this method allows you to use any search engine.
This is really handy! I wonder if adding it in Chrome as a search engine is better than using the Wolfram Alpha chrome extension though. That is much easier to search using just combination of "=" followed by space and you can directly type in your search query to the Math engine :)
Wolfram|Alpha (Official)
Instantly query Wolfram|Alpha from any page or tab.
There is more to it, you can type formula and equations directly in your navigation bar using this on any page or tab. Pretty neat!
[Source]: From Wolfram Alpha Official Chrome Extension page
===FEATURES===
✓ Wolfram|Alpha Button – Access the Wolfram|Alpha query box with just one click. You can also right-click the Wolfram|Alpha icon to change extension options.
✓ Omnibox Shortcut – Transform Chrome's omnibox into a Wolfram|Alpha query field by typing an = sign followed by a space.
✓ Context Menu Shortcut – Highlight text to create queries through a context menu (right-click) entry.
Shouting out to StackOverflow community:
I am still learning and appreciating the power of this engine. If you guys have some resources or content apart from Wolfram's official site, please do share!
This will really help me as a beginner in the field and I can use to improve.
What better way to search than the famous Euler's Identity. In Chrome Nav bar
"=" ==> (space) ==> e^(i*pie) ==> (enter)
Or something like:
"=" ==> (space) ==> sqrt(1779)*cube(pi) ==> (enter)
And see the result instantly in Wolfram. Awesome isn't it?
We are using lucene within a web application to search in a great number of PDF documents.
The workflow is like this:
A user enters a search term
A list of search results is presented to the user.
Each search result represents one PDF document and shows the user on which page the search term was found. Each of these pages is represented as a hyperlink.
If the user now clicks on such a hyperlink, he directly jumps to that page.
But now the user has the problem that the search term isn't highlighted on the page. Therefore the user has to look on his own to find the search term on the page.
What we wanted is a way to highlight the search term on the specific page in the PDF.
The open parameters for Acrobat Reader allow for either searching a PDF document (with hit highlighting) OR jumping to a specific page. But the combination of both parameters - which we would need - doesn't work.
Does anyone have an idea how jumping to a page and highlighting a search term in a PDF document could work?
I had a look at the Acrobat SDK but don't see how we can use it (it's terribly documented).
acrobat uses a plugin to hilite terms, and requires a fdf stream to indicate the words to hilite.
See here for pointers:
support.dtsearch.com/dts0152.htm
update:
assuming you know the page# and word# on the page to hilight, here is one way to do it:
On web page:
<iframe id="acroframe" src="pdfpage/example.pdf#xml=http://example.com/hilite.aspx?hilite=8e3302ee-ff88-41ee-bdfb-9e8df87cc3ad&toolbar=1&navpanes=0&statusbar=0&view=FitH">
</iframe>
The PDF will appear in the frame, it will show the toolbar, hide the navpane & status bars and fit page to horizontal. Then it will query the web site to get the xfdf data for hilighting: http://example.com/hilite.aspx?hilite=8e3302ee-ff88-41ee-bdfb-9e8df87cc3ad
Here I used a guid key that I previously saved in the session with the hilite xfdf value.
The hilite.aspx page will return something like the following to hilite words in the document:
<XML>
<Body units=characters color=#ff00ff mode=active version=2>
<Highlight>
<loc pg=15 pos=3583 len=5>
</Highlight>
</Body>
</XML>
This will hilight 5 chars on page 15 starting at position 3583. (note: xfdf is not real "XML" despite the similarity)
Note that acrobat reader will have to have the "Enable search highlights from external highlight server" option checked in preferences.
Sorry might not be an answer, but a workaround could be to covert the PDF to html and use Lucene highlighter (similar to what Google does)
You'd have to write a snippet of Javascript to get the behavior you are looking for.